X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <48040493.7010205@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:27:47 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080213 Thunderbird/2.0.0.12 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [Attn: alternatives maintainer] - ghostscript preremove breakage References: <7zk5j0yt70.fsf@vzell-de.de.oracle.com> <4803E1B3.8070809@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <7zbq4ct3wv.fsf@vzell-de.de.oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <7zbq4ct3wv.fsf@vzell-de.de.oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > I just tried again: > > I deleted /usr/bin/gs symlink, /etc/alternatives/gs symlink and /var/lib/alternatives/gs. > > 12:13 AM [506]> update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gs gs /usr/bin/gs-native 10 > 01:20 AM [507]> update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gs gs /usr/bin/gs-x11 20 > path to alternate expected in /var/lib/alternatives/gs > 01:20 AM [508]> cat /var/lib/alternatives/gs > auto > /usr/bin/gs > > /usr/bin/gs-native > 10 Still can't reproduce: $ rm /usr/bin/gs $ rm /etc/alternatives/gs $ rm /var/lib/alternatives/gs $ /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gs gs /usr/bin/gs-native 10 $ /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gs gs /usr/bin/gs-x11 20 $ cat /var/lib/alternatives/gs auto /usr/bin/gs /usr/bin/gs-native 10 /usr/bin/gs-x11 20 As it happens, my XP machine was still using ghostscript-8.50, so I ran setup on it, and upgraded to gs-8.51-2 (using setup-2.573.2.2). Here's the last bit of that /var/log/setup.log.full: ... 2008/04/14 21:09:20 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh 2008/04/14 21:09:33 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/fftw3.sh 2008/04/14 21:09:33 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/ghostscript.sh 2008/04/14 21:09:34 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/ghostscript-x11.sh 2008/04/14 21:09:34 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/git.sh 2008/04/14 21:09:34 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/gnupg.sh install-info: menu item `gpg' already exists, for file `gpg' 2008/04/14 21:09:34 abnormal exit: exit code=1 2008/04/14 21:09:34 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/gv.sh 2008/04/14 21:09:35 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/libXft.sh >>> Processing directory /usr/lib >>> Processing directory /usr/X11R6/lib 2008/04/14 21:13:28 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/libtool.sh 2008/04/14 21:13:28 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/t1lib.sh 2008/04/14 21:13:28 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/xfig.sh 2008/04/14 21:13:29 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/xpdf.sh 2008/04/14 21:17:44 note: Installation Complete 2008/04/14 21:17:44 Ending cygwin install I don't know what else to do here. Unless I can reproduce it, I can't debug it. The only possibility I can think of is this: are you actually using alternatives-1.3.29a-1, or some older version? The previous version had a serious bug in a routine called by --display... -- Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/